Do As One Day, 2012

Continuing our series of events looking at large-scale organized
meditations and similar occasions, we look again at the data during a
day of "breathing together". The occasion was a cooperation among
several organizations, and was expected to bring large numbers of people
to a shared state of conscious intention. Among the others joining
doasone.org, were Medmob.org and TheMomentofPeace.com, as described
here:

A silent global phenomenon is occurring! Do As One has linked up with
The Moment of Peace and MedMob to inspire people from around the world
to unite. On March 10th, tens of thousands of people, in over 300
cities around the world are joining together for an hour of silence to
cultivate peace and harmony for humanity. Collectively, “Together As
One”. The message is simple; take a moment and appreciate silence in
order to expand peace with each other and from within.

Participants in Jerusalem, Austin, Sydney, Paris, Mumbai, London, New
York, Los Angeles, and many more are organizing public outdoor
meditations in the heart of their cities to anchor peace and invoke a
spirit of togetherness. It is set to be the biggest gathering of its
kind in history.

Following is the invitation from Do As One:

Dear fellow breathers,
This Saturday, March 10th, tens of thousands of people, in over 300
cities around the world are joining together for an hour of silence to
cultivate peace and harmony for humanity. The message is simple; take a
moment and appreciate silence in order to expand peace with each other
and from within.
*The Moment of Peace *
*Saturday, March 10th 2012.*
Two waves of silence - *Noon to 1PM* and *8PM to 9PM* in your own local
time-zone.

The GCP event was set for the full 24 hour day since the description
implies that there would be continuous meditation (silence). The result
is Chisquare 85269 on
86400 df, with p = 0.997 and Z = -2.7301.
It is worth noting that the consistent negative deviation has frequently
been seen during large-scale focused meditations.

It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish
signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be
largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.